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Microsoft has a new version of Azure Data Box Edge that can fit in a backpack and runs on batteries.

A recent Microsoft post contained the news that Exchange Online uses Windows Server Core. That might be news to some, but not to anyone who’s been following the advice of the Exchange product group. Exchange Online doesn’t use virtual servers, follows a preferred architecture, wants to reduce the potential attack surface, and extract as much CPU as possible out of its servers. All good reasons why Windows Server Core helps.

Microsoft has a new pair of earbuds that don’t come cheap but they also integreat with Office 365.

Loops are one of those crucial logic components that every programming language uses extensively and PowerShell is by no means any different. A loop allows you to iterate through a collection of objects performing one or more operations on each.

Microsoft Teams is very successful at present, but a nagging doubt exists that some of the approaches taken by Microsoft towards Teams management and administration are less than optimum. It’s great to introduce a mass of new features on an ongoing basis and it’s better when policies exist to control the use of the features. But do new features always need to be enabled out-of-the-box?

Microsoft has a new SKU of Windows 10 but this version is introducing compartmentalization of Win32, a huge step towards making Windows 10, fully modular.

Microsoft has announced hardware updates to the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and the company is also launching a brand-new tablet that uses an ARM chip and features LTE connectivity.

Looking to upgrade to PowerShell 7? Here’s the easy way to move to the new version of the platform.

Microsoft posted an odd blog on September 9 to announce improvements in the relationship between Exchange Online and Azure Active Directory. Many Office 365 tenants might have ignored the post, but it’s actually about a piece of important work to help the service run better. Many updates happen to Exchange Online objects that need to be replicated to Azure Active Directory and onward to other Office 365 app directories. This work means that changes show up faster, which is good, but there’s a small downside to note.

With September coming to an end, here’s what you need to know about Office 365 and SharePoint announcements during the past month.

Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available, here’s what you need to know about the new service.

We are now in the middle of the second Azure (and Windows) semester of 2019. Planning for the first semester of 2020 is underway. And now we are just over 1 month away from Ignite, the week that is usually an explosion of announcements for Microsoft’s enterprise products.